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		<description><![CDATA[Shareholder From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A shareholder or stockholder is an individual or company (including a corporation) that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a joint stock company. A company&#8217;s shareholders collectively own that company. Thus, such companies strive to enhance shareholder value. Stockholders are granted special privileges depending on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financial4freedom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3918795&amp;post=21&amp;subd=financial4freedom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p><!-- start content -->A <strong>shareholder</strong> or <strong>stockholder</strong> is an <a title="Individual" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual">individual</a> or <a class="mw-redirect" title="Company (law)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_%28law%29">company</a> (including a <a title="Corporation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation">corporation</a>) that legally owns one or more <a title="Share (finance)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_%28finance%29">shares</a> of <a title="Stock" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock">stock</a> in a <a title="Joint stock company" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_stock_company">joint stock company</a>. A company&#8217;s shareholders collectively own that company. Thus, such companies strive to enhance <a title="Shareholder value" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_value">shareholder value</a>. Stockholders are granted special privileges depending on the class of stock, including the right to vote (usually one vote per share owned, but sometimes this is not the case) on matters such as elections to the <a title="Board of directors" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_directors">board of directors</a>, the right to propose <a class="mw-redirect" title="Shareholder resolutions" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_resolutions">shareholder resolutions</a>, the right to share in distributions of the company&#8217;s income, the right to purchase new shares issued by the company, and the right to a company&#8217;s assets during a <a title="Liquidation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidation">liquidation</a> of the company. However, stockholder&#8217;s rights to a company&#8217;s assets are subordinate to the rights of the company&#8217;s creditors. This means that stockholders typically receive nothing if a company is liquidated after <a title="Bankruptcy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy">bankruptcy</a> (if the company had had enough to pay its creditors, it would not have entered bankruptcy), although a stock may have value after a bankruptcy if there is the possibility that the debts of the company will be restructured.</p>
<p>Stockholders or shareholders are considered by some to be a partial <a title="Subset" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subset">subset</a> of <a title="Stakeholder (corporate)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakeholder_%28corporate%29">stakeholders</a>, which may include anyone who has a direct or indirect equity interest in the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Business entity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_entity">business entity</a> or someone with even a non-pecuniary interest in a <a title="Non-profit organization" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_organization">non-profit organization</a>. Thus it might be common to call <a title="Volunteer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer">volunteer</a> contributors to an <a title="Voluntary association" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_association">association</a> stakeholders, even though they are not shareholders.</p>
<p>Although directors and officers of a company are bound by <a title="Fiduciary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary">fiduciary</a> duties to act in the best interest of the shareholders, the shareholders themselves normally do not have such duties towards each other.</p>
<p>However, in a few unusual cases, some courts have been willing to imply such a duty between shareholders. For example, in <a title="California" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California">California</a>, majority shareholders of closely held corporations have a duty to not destroy the value of the shares held by minority shareholders<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder#cite_note-jones-v-ahmanson-0">[1]</a></sup>.</p>
<p>The largest shareholders (in terms of percentages of companies owned) are often mutual funds, especially passively managed <a title="Exchange-traded fund" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange-traded_fund">exchange-traded funds</a><sup><span style="white-space:nowrap;" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources since October 2007">[<em><a title="Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</a></em>]</span></sup>.</p>
<p>Shareholders play an important role in raising finance of any organizations. So these figures pose a great opportunity for all those who are looking for a lucrative option to invest money. All good organization provides all necessary proofs to share holders that they are investing at a right place. Fair and reliable audit figures from income statement and balance sheet enhances chances to make shareholder believe in overall performance.<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Conventional Banks financial services Is Grameen Bank Different From Conventional Banks? Muhammad Yunus February, 2008 Grameen Bank methodology is almost the reverse of the conventional banking methodology. Conventional banking is based on the principle that the more you have, the more you can get. In other words, if you have little or nothing, you get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financial4freedom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3918795&amp;post=20&amp;subd=financial4freedom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#009933;font-size:large;">Is Grameen Bank Different<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size:medium;">Muhammad            Yunus<br />
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:medium;">February</span></strong></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"><strong>, 2008</strong></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grameen Bank methodology is almost the reverse of the conventional banking methodology. Conventional banking is based on the principle that the more you have, the more you can get. In other words, if you have little or nothing, you get nothing. As a result, more than half the population of the world is deprived of the financial services of the conventional banks. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Conventional banking is based on collateral, Grameen system is collateral- free.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grameen Bank starts with the belief that credit should be accepted as a human right, and builds a system where one who does not possess anything gets the highest priority in getting a loan. Grameen methodology is not based on assessing the material possession of a person, it is based on the potential of a person. Grameen believes that all human beings, including the poorest, are endowed with endless potential.</p>
<p>Conventional banks look at what has already been acquired by a person. Grameen looks at the potential that is waiting to be unleashed in a person.</p>
<p></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Conventional banks are owned by the rich, generally men. Grameen Bank is owned by poor women.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Overarching objective of the conventional banks is to maximize profit. Grameen Bank&#8217;s objective is to bring financial services to the poor, particularly women and the poorest  to help them fight poverty, stay profitable and financially sound. It is a composite objective, coming out of social and economic visions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Conventional banks focus on men, Grameen gives high priority to women. 97 per cent of Grameen Bank&#8217;s borrowers are women. Grameen Bank works to raise the status of poor women in their families by giving them ownership of assets. It makes sure that the ownership of the houses built with Grameen Bank loans remain with the borrowers, i.e., the women</span>.</p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grameen Bank branches are located in the rural areas, unlike the branches of conventional banks which try to locate themselves as close as possible to the business districts and urban centers. First principle of Grameen banking is that the clients should not go to the bank, it is the bank which should go to the people instead. Grameen Bank&#8217;s 25,211 staff meet 7.45 million borrowers at their door-step in 81,334 villages spread out all over Bangladesh, every week, and deliver bank&#8217;s service. Repayment of Grameen loans is also made very easy by splitting the loan amount in tiny weekly installments. Doing business this way means a lot of work for the bank, but it is a lot convenient for the borrowers.<br />
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There is no legal instrument between the lender and the borrower in the Grameen methodology. There is no stipulation that a client will be taken to the court of law to recover the loan, unlike in the conventional system. There is no provision in the methodology to enforce a contract by any external intervention.</p>
<p></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Conventional banks go into &#8216;punishment&#8217; mode when a borrower is taking more time in repaying the loan than it was agreed upon. They call these borrowers &#8220;defaulters&#8221;. Grameen methodology allows such borrowers to reschedule their loans without making them feel that they have done anything wrong (indeed, they have not done anything wrong.)</p>
<p>When a client gets into difficulty, conventional banks get worried about their money, and make all efforts to recover the money, including taking over the collateral. Grameen system, in such cases, works extra hard to assist the borrower in difficulty, and makes all efforts to help her regain her strength and overcome her difficulties.</p>
<p>In conventional banks charging interest does not stop unless specific exception is made to a particular defaulted loan. Interest charged on a loan can be multiple of the principal, depending on the length of the loan period. In Grameen Bank, under no circumstances total interest on a loan can exceed the amount of the loan, no matter how long the loan remains unrepaid. No interest is charged after the interest amount equals the principal.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Conventional banks do not pay attention to what happens to the borrowers&#8217; families as results of taking loans from the banks. Grameen system pays a lot of attention to monitoring the education of the children (Grameen Bank routinely gives them scholarships and student loans), housing, sanitation, access to clean drinking water, and their coping capacity for meeting disasters and emergency situations. Grameen system helps the borrowers to build their own pension funds, and other types of savings.</p>
<p>Interest on conventional bank loans are generally compounded quarterly, while all interests are simple interests in Grameen Bank.<br />
In case of death of a borrower, Grameen system does not require the family of the deceased to pay back the loan. There is a built-in insurance programme which pays off the entire outstanding amount with interest. No liability is transferred to the family.</p>
<p>In Grameen Bank even a beggar gets special attention. A beggar comes under a campaign from Grameen Bank which is designed to persuade him/her to join Grameen programme. The bank explains to her how she can carry some merchandise with her when she goes out to beg from door to door and earn money, or she can display some merchandise by her side when she is begging in a fixed place. Grameen&#8217;s idea is to graduate her to a dignified livelihood rather than continue with begging</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Such a programme would not be a part of a conventional bank&#8217;s work</span>.</p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Grameen system encourages the borrowers to adopt some goals in social, educational and health areas. These are knows as &#8220;Sixteen Decisions&#8221; (no dowry, education for children, sanitary latrine, planting trees, eating vegetables to combat night-blindness among children, arranging clean drinking water, etc.). Conventional banks do not see this as their business.</p>
<p></span><span style="font-family:Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In Grameen, we see the poor people as human &#8220;bonsai&#8221;. If a healthy seed of a giant tree is planted in a flower-pot, the tree that will grow will be a miniature version of the giant tree. It is not because of any fault in the seed, because there is no fault in the seed. It is only because the seed has been denied of the real base to grow on. People are poor because society has denied them the real social and economic base to grow on. They are given only the &#8220;flower-pots&#8221; to grow on. Grameen&#8217;s effort is to move them from the &#8220;flower-pot&#8221; to the real soil of the society.</p>
<p>If we can succeed in doing that there will be no human &#8220;bonsai&#8221; in the world. We&#8217;ll have a poverty-free world.</span><br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Money and Credit Help you about Finance, banking Bank credit and monetary inflation, which had resumed its upward trend under Federal sponsorship in late 1949, had attained new high levels by mid-1950. This accomplishment had proceeded strictly according to the banking and finance laws as they existed on the books. Federal credit, which was directed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financial4freedom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3918795&amp;post=19&amp;subd=financial4freedom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<div class="art_alt_main">Bank credit and monetary inflation, which had resumed  its upward trend under Federal sponsorship in late 1949, had attained new high  levels by mid-1950. This accomplishment had proceeded strictly according to the  banking and finance laws as they existed on the books. Federal credit, which was  directed into all phases of the nation&#8217;s economy, was combined with a policy of  artificial controls and government operation by deficit financing. The extensive  credit expansion was reflected in such items as increased government-guaranteed  real-estate loans, new highs in consumer credit, high-price policies for foods  and raw materials, increased business loans, increased inventory values,  extensive borrowing by finance companies, and much available Federal credit at  low rates. These conditions were supplemented by the availability of substantial  amounts of funds from savings banks, insurance companies, savings and loan  associations, pension funds, and large trust funds. The prevailing attitude  indicated an over-all disregard for inflation or its consequences. In early  1950, and coincident with this trend, plans were made to introduce into Congress  legislation which would provide for Federally guaranteed and supervised loans  for small business on a liberal basis.</div>
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<div class="art_alt_main">Under the mandate of the law and in harmony with the  policies of managed-money exponents it was pointed out in 1950 that socially  devised central banks of a quasi-public nature were now required to re-enforce  the nation&#8217;s private banking structure. Modifications of the Federal Reserve Act  of 1913, many of which were made after 1930, were stated to have worked toward  this end. It was further held that under this new banking structure the  efficient performance of banking functions has provided just the right amount of  credit expansion. It was also contended that enough credit expansion meant not  so much as to foster inflation and not so little as to induce deflation. The  Federally controlled central bank was portrayed as the correct arbitrary  instrument for arbitrary control to maintain just the right amount of money and  credit for a sound, progressive economy. Mention was omitted of the influences  of Federal lending agencies upon the nation&#8217;s credit.</div>
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<div class="art_alt_main">The policy of debt management and operation of Federal  gratuities, since the end of World War II hostilities, had extended their  influence into stimulating the nation&#8217;s inflationary forces to such a degree  that most existing or operating managed controls failed to function. The extra  stimulus given to panic buying and hysterical hoarding which resulted from the  Korean crisis of mid-1950, confused most issues of control and balance advocated  by the many appointed government managers of credit. Inflationary forces swept  the national economy in late 1950 and economic fire fighters appeared in many  places.</div>
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<div class="art_alt_main">On Aug. 18, 1950, the Board of Governors of the Federal  Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee published a policy  statement. In it they proposed an increase in discount rates, the restraint of  bank credit, increased taxation and the principle that all citizens must  voluntarily stop inflation of their own will.</div>
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<div class="art_alt_main">In a manner similar to that followed by the public,  which under the pressure of inflationary fears had run to buy and hoard, the  members of Congress rushed to turn out emergency legislation as a corrective  measure.</div>
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<div class="art_alt_main">The Defense Production Act of Sept. 8, 1950, was created  to bring about a stable economy. Emergency provisions were to be set up and  administered by Federal appointees. This act endeavored to establish priorities  and allocations for facilities and materials, provide financial assistance and  expand productive capacity, stabilize wages and prices, settle labor disputes,  control credit, and in general place the nation as a whole in an economic strait  jacket. Meanwhile the Government itself continued to increase Federal debt,  loans, and expenses, which furthered inflation through the operations of its  various agencies, corporations, and bureaus. It also continued arbitrary price  supports and subsidies.</div>
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<div class="art_alt_main">The new Federal contracts necessary for the military  expansion usually amounted to large sums of money. The Labor Department  exercised its authority over these contracts by injecting a clause which fixed  the minimum wages to be paid in such production at the level it designated. At  the same time both the military men and Congress became astounded at the 1950  increased costs of materials and equipment. These expenditures for the fiscal  years 1949 and 1950 had been over $12,000,000,000 for each year, while the 1951  estimates had become astronomical in size.</div>
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<div class="art_alt_main">In the meantime the Federal Reserve Banks of the nation  still had to accept Federal bonds at par, and interest rates remained pegged  near 2 per cent. Under these general conditions the Defense Production Act was  devised to control the economy and stop inflation.</div>
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<div class="art_alt_main">Executive Order No. 10,161, issued by the President of  the United States on Sept. 9, 1950, definitely assigned these legislated  controls by delegating their administration to the various governmental  departments and agencies. In mid-December Charles E. Wilson, head of the General  Electric Corporation, was selected to act as head of the production-control  program second only to the President of the United States.</div>
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<div class="art_alt_main">The Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the banking  system in general were fitted into the plan by Regulation V, on loan guarantees  for defense production; Regulation W, on consumer credit; and Regulation X, on  residential real-estate credit. These regulations are discussed in more detail  at the end of this article. Thomas B. McCabe, Chairman of the Board of Governors  of the Federal Reserve System, in an address before the National Association of  Supervisors of State Banks on Sept. 21, 1950, at Boston, emphasized the stressed  items relative to banking controls, that regulations of consumer credit,  real-estate credit, and others were selective controls which applied in general  to specific areas of credit. He admitted that they were important but emphasized  that they would not perform miracles. Greater importance was placed by Mr.  McCabe upon the monetary and fiscal policy followed by all banking institutions  and the extent to which they were effective. This, combined with the support  they should receive from Federal and state agencies and supervisory authorities,  would reach into areas outside that covered by the legislated controls. This  view was amplified and reasserted in an address before the Committee for  Economic Development on November 15, at New York. Again in December, at a  conference of the American Bankers Association in Chicago this viewpoint was  reiterated, but Mr. James E. Shelton, President of the Security First National  Bank of Los Angeles also pointed out to the conference that inflation was the  direct product of the Federal Government, started in the thirties and fostered  by Federal agencies and policies. An attempt to shift the blame to the banks was  not received sympathetically.</div>
<p class="art_alt_headline2">Deficit Financing.</p>
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<div class="art_alt_main">Banking throughout the nation in 1950 had participated  in financing increased consumer credit, easy (guaranteed) housing credit, new  issues of both Federal and state credit, and extensive increased fixed loans to  agriculture and business. Where such credit was restrained, complaints by  business to Congress brought threats of a new Federal lending agency. Paucity of  civilian supplies during the World War II period, and pent up individual demands  backed by large supplies of cheap money, now released buying pressures upon the  newly produced available supplies. This, combined with personal savings and  business reserves that were inadequate to meet these new expenditures, resulted  in more 1950 debt or deficit spending by business, Federal, state and local  governments, private citizens, and foreigners. Over-all demands for bank credit  in 1950 were heavy, and Government securities used as provided for by law acted  as one of the important facilitating vehicles. The 1950 conflict of opinion on  policy in banking and finance, which concerned the interest rates advocated by  the Treasury Department in contrast to money rates advocated by the Federal  Reserve Board, terminated late in the year with increased rates. The Federal  Reserve System&#8217;s point of view had prevailed at least temporarily.</div>
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<div class="art_alt_main">While matters of policy relative to inflation had been  viewed with varying attitudes from different positions in both public and  private financial circles, Federal corporations and credit agencies had  increased their easy money loans in 1950 with funds procured from the U.S.  Treasury, which was also very much in debt. These loans amounted to about  $12,733,000,000 at the end of 1949 and about $13,350,000,000 by the end of the  first quarter of 1950. Federal budget expenditures reported had continued for  the first half of 1950 at a rate which varied between $2,496,000,000 and  $4,296,000,000 per month. The nation&#8217;s banks continued to hold about  $84,000,000,000 in Federal securities, and yields on taxable Treasury bonds were  held at about 2.34 per cent. Total money in circulation, which was backed  basically by Federal debt, had increased slightly from about $26,941,000,000 in  January to about $27,156,000,000 by June, while deposit currency (demand  deposits) had indicated an increasing trend when they exceeded  $96,000,000,000.</div>
<p class="art_alt_headline2">Venture Capital.</p>
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<div class="art_alt_main">In the field of banking concerned with financing  long-term operations in 1950, new securities offered for cash in the United  States had by August reached a level of about $13,601,680,000 and more than  $9,269,731,000 was for noncorporate purposes. Corporate issues for cash which  resulted from the sale of stock were able to provide only about $591,922,000  through common stock and $405,026,000 through preferred stock. Financing through  long-term loans, bonds and retained earnings had continued to prevail in 1950.  Institutional lenders were very active, and investment banking continued to find  its activities in competition with these institutions and Federal agencies. The  last quarter of 1950 provided considerable disturbance in the field of banking  and finance. This was related to inflation, the nature of credit controls, and  the extent of taxation. Credit restraints had taken a definite form in the  Defense Production Act. Executive Order No. 10,161 had started action, and  December brought a declaration of national emergency by the President. The  nation&#8217;s prosperity figures, voiced by the council of economic advisers, were  now regarded by both public and private banking leaders as highly inflated.  Savings and fixed income provided little purchasing power, and debts were high  as 1950 closed.</div>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banking And Finance Finance stimulate Banking and finance in the United States in 1950 were confronted with many problems, one of which was a revived inflation. The legislation of the 1930&#8242;s and 1940&#8242;s had planted the seeds of inflation in the policies and laws which were established to promote easy credit for both private banking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financial4freedom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3918795&amp;post=18&amp;subd=financial4freedom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<div class="art_alt_main">Banking and finance in the United States in 1950 were  confronted with many problems, one of which was a revived inflation. The  legislation of the 1930&#8242;s and 1940&#8242;s had planted the seeds of inflation in the  policies and laws which were established to promote easy credit for both private  banking institutions and government agencies through Government guarantees,  subsidies, and deficit financing. Investment credit was faced with tax penalties  and the consumer was faced with rising prices influenced by a Government policy  of spend and support. The 1950 dollar reached a new high in cheapness and a new  low in its purchasing power. National fear for economic and political security,  fostered by long-established Federal policies, forced new emergency legislation  in 1950 to control the whole civilian economy, including finance and banking  functions. A trend of bank mergers and consolidations for purposes of survival  continued in 1950. Bank assets attained new highs in dollar figures, but  earnings still depended upon investments in Government bonds. Bank stocks  remained among those investments which received the lowest dividend payments.  Private debt and consumer credit attained new highs in 1950, and the commercial  banks held a large share of this credit. Savings and investments produced a  mediocre performance for the year 1950, which was claimed to have produced an  all-time high in national income. Venture capital remained practically  nonexistent, while fixed loans and debt increased. Agricultural assets looked  large when reported in their inflated values but agriculture also had large  debts and costs at fixed inflated values. The Federal Government continued to  guarantee and make loans and had become the largest debtor in the world.  Government finance agencies and corporations operated in all phases of the  banking business during 1950, with the U.S. Treasury providing the funds and  upkeep. New laws pertinent to banking and finance were enacted, but they neither  amended already established laws effectively, nor decreased Government  expenditures and deficit financing, nor relieved controls in the field of  finance that would stimulate saving or effectively counteract inflation.</div>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soft loans Hight Interest rate at financial A soft loan is a repayable loan that is offered on more attractive terms than would be available from a commercial lender or to a business that would not be able to access a commercial loan. Soft loans are similar to repayable grants. However, this does not necessarily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financial4freedom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3918795&amp;post=16&amp;subd=financial4freedom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<h1>Soft loans</h1>
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<h3>Hight Interest rate at financial</h3>
<p class="message_text">A <a href="http://financial4freedom.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/soft-loans">soft loan</a> is a repayable loan that is offered on more attractive terms than would be available from a commercial lender or to a business that would not be able to access a commercial loan.</p>
<p>Soft loans are similar to repayable grants. However, this does not necessarily mean they are interest free or even low interest. These loans are generally available to businesses that are unable to access loans from conventional sources (banks).  They do not generally require security, although they may require some personal financial commitment from the business owners. Because the business risk profile is often high, the interest rate charged is often relatively high.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islamic banking Islamic Financial Dealing Islamic banks appeared on the world scene as active players over two decades ago. But &#8220;many of the principles upon which Islamic banking is based have been commonly accepted all over the world, for centuries rather than decades&#8221;. The basic principle of Islamic banking is the prohibition of Riba- (Usury [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financial4freedom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3918795&amp;post=15&amp;subd=financial4freedom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<h1>Islamic banking</h1>
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<p><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;"> Islamic banks appeared on the world scene as active players over                two decades ago. But &#8220;many of the principles upon which Islamic                banking is based have been commonly accepted all over the world,                for centuries rather than decades&#8221;. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;">The                   basic principle of Islamic banking is the prohibition of Riba- (Usury                   &#8211; or interest): </span></p>
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<p align="justify"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;">&#8220;While                     a basic tenant of Islamic banking &#8211; the outlawing of riba, a term                     that encompasses not only the concept of usury, but also that                     of interest &#8211; has seldom been recognised as applicable beyond                     the Islamic world, many of its guiding principles have. The majority                     of these principles are based on simple morality and common sense,                     which form the bases of many religions, including Islam. </span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;">&#8220;The                     universal nature of these principles is immediately apparent even                     at a cursory glance of non-Muslim literature. Usury was prohibited                     in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, while Shakespeare                     and many other writers, particularly those writing in the 19th                     century, have attacked the barbarity of the practice. Much of                     the morality championed by Victorian writers such as Dickens &#8211;                     ranging from the equitable distribution of wealth through to man&#8217;s                     fundamental right to work &#8211; is clearly present in modern Islamic                     society. </span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;">&#8220;Although                     the western media frequently suggest that Islamic banking in its                     present form is a recent phenomenon, in fact, the basic practices                     and principles date back to the early part of the seventh century.&#8221;</span> (<span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;">Islamic                     Finance: A Euromoney Publication, 1997)</span></p>
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<p align="justify"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;">It                   is evident that Islamic finance was practiced predominantly in the                   Muslim world throughout the Middle Ages, fostering trade and business                   activities. In Spain and the Mediterranean and Baltic States, Islamic                   merchants became indispensable middlemen for trading activities.                   It is claimed that many concepts, techniques, and instruments of                   Islamic finance were later adopted by European financiers and businessmen. </span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;">The                   revival of Islamic banking coincided with the world-wide celebration                   of the advent of the 15th Century of Islamic calendar (Hijra) in                   1976. At the same time financial resources of Muslims particularly                   those of the oil producing countries, received a boost due to rationalization                   of the oil prices, which had hitherto been under the control of                   foreign oil Corporations. These events led Muslims&#8217; to strive to                   model their lives in accordance with the ethics and philosophy of                   Islam. </span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;">Disenchantment                   with the value neutral capitalist and socialist financial systems                   led not only Muslims but also others to look for ethical values                   in their financial dealings and in the West some financial organisations                   have opted for ethical operations. </span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;">Islam                   not only prohibits dealing in interest but also in liquor, pork,                   gambling, pornography and anything else, which the Shariah (Islamic                   Law) deems Haram (unlawful). Islamic banking is an instrument for                   the development of an Islamic economic order. Some of the salient                   features of this order may be summed up as: </span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;">While                                                                             permitting the individual the right to seek his economic well-being,                                                                             Islam makes a clear distinction between what is Halal (lawful)                                                                             and what is haram (forbidden) in pursuit of such economic activity.                                                                             In broad terms, Islam forbids all forms of economic activity,                                                                             which are morally or socially injurious. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;"> While acknowledging the individual&#8217;s right to ownership of wealth                                                                             legitimately acquired, Islam makes it obligatory on the individual                                                                             to spend his wealth judiciously and not to hoard it, keep it idle                                                                             or to squander it. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;"> While allowing an individual to retain any surplus wealth, Islam                                                                             seeks to reduce the margin of the surplus for the well-being of                                                                             the community as a whole, in particular the destitute and deprived                                                                             sections of society by participation in the process of Zakat. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;"> While making allowance for the ways of human nature and yet not                                                                             yielding to the consequences of its worst propensities, Islam                                                                             seeks to prevent the accumulation of wealth in a few hands to                                                                             the detriment of society as a whole, by its laws of inheritance. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;"> Viewed as a whole, the economic system envisaged by Islam aims                                                                             at social justice without inhibiting individual enterprise beyond                                                                             the point where it becomes not only collectively injurious but                                                                             also individually self-destructive. </span></div>
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<p align="justify"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;">The                   Islamic financial system employs the concept of participation in                   the enterprise, utilizing the funds at risk on a profit-and- loss-sharing                   basis. This by no means implies that investments with financial                   institutions are necessarily speculative. This can be excluded by                   careful investment policy, diversification of risk and prudent management                   by Islamic financial institutions.</span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;">It                   is possible, that investment in Islamic financial institutions can                   provide potential profit in proportion to the risk assumed to satisfy                   the differing demands of participants in the contemporary environment                   and within the guidelines of the Shariah. </span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;">The                   concept of profit-and-loss sharing, as a basis of financial transactions                   is a progressive one as it distinguishes good performance from the                   bad and the mediocre. This concept therefore encourages better resource                   management. </span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000;">Islamic                banks are structured to retain a clearly differentiated status between                shareholders&#8217; capital and clients&#8217; deposits in order to ensure correct                profit-sharing according to Islamic Law.</span></p>
<p align="justify">source :<a href="http://www.islamic-banking.com/ibanking/whatib.php"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>http://www.islamic-banking.com/ibanking/whatib.php</strong></span></a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commercial banks &#124; &#124; commercial bank for businesses Commercial banks are so named because they specialize in loans to commercial and industrial businesses. Commercial banks are owned by private investors, called stockholders, or by companies called bank holding companies. The vast majority of commercial banks are owned by bank holding companies. (A holding company is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financial4freedom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3918795&amp;post=14&amp;subd=financial4freedom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<h3> commercial bank for businesses  </h3>
<p>Commercial banks are so named because they specialize in loans to commercial and  industrial businesses. Commercial banks are owned by private investors, called  stockholders, or by companies called bank holding companies. The vast majority  of commercial banks are owned by bank holding companies. (A <em>holding  company</em> is a corporation that exists only to hold shares in another  company.) In 1984, 62 percent of banks were owned by holding companies. In 2000,  76 percent of banks were owned by holding companies. The bank holding company  form of ownership became increasingly attractive for several reasons. First,  holding companies could engage in activities not permitted in the bank  itself—for example, offering investment advice, underwriting securities, and  engaging in other investment banking activities. But these activities were  permitted in the bank if the holding company owned separate companies that offer  these services. Using the holding company form of organization, bankers could  then diversify their product lines and offer services requested by their  customers and provided by their European counterparts. Second, many states had  laws that restricted a bank from opening branches to within a certain number of  miles from the bank’s main branch. By setting up a holding company, a banking  firm could locate new banks around the state and therefore put branches in  locations not previously available.</p>
<p>Commercial banks are “for profit” organizations. Their objective is to make a  profit. The profits either can be paid out to bank stockholders or to the  holding company in the form of dividends, or the profits can be retained to  build capital (net worth). Commercial banks traditionally have the broadest  variety of assets and liabilities. Their historical specialties have been  commercial lending to businesses on the asset side and checking accounts for  businesses and individuals on the liability side. However, commercial banks also  make consumer loans for automobiles and other consumer goods as well as real  estate (mortgage) loans for both consumers and businesses.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finance Finance, branch of economics concerned with providing funds to individuals, businesses, and governments. Finance allows these entities to use credit instead of cash to purchase goods and invest in projects. For example, an individual can borrow money from a bank to buy a home. An industrial firm can raise money through investors to build [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financial4freedom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3918795&amp;post=13&amp;subd=financial4freedom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://financial4freedom.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/finance/"><span class="inline_title">Finance</span></a>, branch of  economics concerned with providing funds to individuals, businesses, and  governments. Finance allows these entities to use <span>credit</span> instead of  cash to purchase goods and invest in projects. For example, an individual can  borrow money from a bank to buy a home. An industrial firm can raise money  through investors to build a new factory. Governments can issue  <span>bonds</span> to raise money for projects.</p>
<p><a href="http://financial4freedom.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/finance/">Finance </a>plays an important role in the economy. As banks,  credit unions, and other financial institutions provide credit, they help expand  the economy by directing funds from savers to borrowers. For example, a bank  acquires large amounts of money from the deposits of individual savers. The bank  does not let this money sit idle but instead provides loans to borrowers who  might then build a house or expand a business. The savings of millions of people  percolate through many financial institutions, spurring economic growth.</p>
<p>A wide variety of financial institutions have different  roles in finance and the economy. Some institutions, such as banks, link lenders  and borrowers. These institutions act as an intermediary among consumers,  businesses, and governments by lending out deposits. Other institutions, such as  <span>stock exchanges</span>, provide a market for existing securities, which  include <span>stocks</span> and bonds. Stock exchanges encourage investment  because they enable investors to sell their securities when the need  arises.</p>
<p>Many aspects of<a href="http://financial4freedom.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/finance/"> finance</a> are studied individually.  <span>Corporate finance</span> centers on how businesses can best raise and  spend their funds. <span>Public finance</span> focuses on the financial role of  federal, state, and local governments.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to Avoid Payday Loan Troubles Be smart. Don&#8217;t waste the money on the things that are a waste If you avoid payday loans you save money. But avoiding payday loans is impossible without planning and desire to follow the plan. Planning helps people to reach their goals. And work is just the ultimate tool [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financial4freedom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3918795&amp;post=12&amp;subd=financial4freedom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<h3>Be smart. Don&#8217;t waste the money on the things that are a waste</h3>
<p>If you avoid payday <a href="http://1000finance.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/type-of-loan/">loans</a> you save money. But avoiding payday loans is impossible without planning and desire to follow the plan.</p>
<p>Planning helps people to reach their goals. And work is just the ultimate tool to reaching goals.</p>
<p>A schedule is needed to maintain your plans in goals. The best way out is to build up a schedule that works best for your personality type.</p>
<p>Then it is about organizing. Unorganized people tend to lose things and get into troubles. In the case of bulding up a plan to avoid payday loans the difficulty with organizing your life will end up with problems in setting up plans, following them, and meeting your goals.</p>
<p>Budgeting is a real helper in preventing you from <a href="http://financial4freedom.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/checking-account-approval-for-a-loan/">payday loans</a>. Structure the budget in accordance with your income and cut off everything that seems to be important, leave only what is important. You will see very soon that the things that seem to be important are nothing but an illusion created by the adversiting (because businesses need to sell you more and more, they know how to tweak your mind and make you want the useless junk).</p>
<p>Do the research in the car <a href="http://1000finance.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/get-cheap-insurance-now/">insurance</a> marketplace for better deals. Also consider coupons and generic products as most generic products are good if not matter than some of the name brands.</p>
<p>Brand clothing &#8211; funny thing, It must be good and look good, but brand is nothing but a myth. Paying 2 times more for the thing mad in China under the &#8220;blessing&#8221; of a brand is really funny.</p>
<p>Do you take food to work? You can save up to $60 weekly if you carry your food to work.</p>
<p>Be smart. Don&#8217;t waste the money on the things that are a waste. And you will notice that all these lenders are no longer part of your life.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may be wondering how can a checking account get you a loan. Well, checking accounts are a great asset. Think about it. You can have your paycheck direct deposited into the account and you can have payment debited directly from the account. This means a lender who sees you have good employment can set [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financial4freedom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3918795&amp;post=11&amp;subd=financial4freedom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You may be wondering how can a checking account get you a <a href="http://1000finance.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/type-of-loan/">loan.</a> Well, checking accounts are a great asset. Think about it. You can have your paycheck direct deposited into the account and you can have payment debited directly from the account.</p>
<p>This means a lender who sees you have good employment can set up loan payments to be automatically debited each month. As long as your checking account has been in good standing, a lender may decide that despite credit issues or other weaknesses in your loan application that you qualify for a loan.</p>
<p>Having your pay deposited in your account is sometimes reason enough to qualify you for a small loan that can help your credit standing. A solid employment history and direct deposit into a checking account can be enough to qualify you for a credit rebuilding loan.</p>
<p>There you have it. Your checking account just got you approved for a loan. It is something worth checking into when you apply for a loan because it really does work. Lenders want reliability and your checking account is standing proof that you are reliable. If you&#8217;re having trouble getting approved, look at being as responsible as possible with your checking account and try again when you look better on paper.</p>
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